Protesters set ransack the US embassy alight in Belgrade. Photograph: AP
Protesters set fire to the American embassy in Belgrade tonight and then attacked the neighbouring Croatian embassy after 150,000 Serbs gathered in the city to demonstrate against the independence of Kosovo.
Read this interview on Kosovo independance in Spiegel with Balkans expert Dusan Reljic: 'Kosovo Is not Independent, It Is an EU Protectorate'
The irony is that on this same day, we have news that the US is expanding its permanent miltary bases around southwest Asia and the ME.
And this is how the world, and especially the ME, will look sixty years from now with all these US military bases.
More on Okinawa here.
Meanwhile the US military will claim that its presence is for self defense. Of course, you invade countries, take land, kill people, and they should be grateful. Like people in Gaza should be quiet and thankful for Israel because Israel in bombing them and starving them is only acting in self defense, exactly like the US. Israel didn't invade these people and stole their land in the first place. It's all their fault. The causal chain must stop before any blame can be attributed to the powerful and the occupier. Whatever the occupying force does before it reacts to the occupied people anger is not pertinent. Broken narratives, distorted memories, are something we should live with, no matter how far we are from the Truth.
Since March 29th 2006